Microsoft 365 – Major Update – “User consent to apps” setting in the Microsoft 365 portal to be retired in early April 2024

Hi All,

Greetings. Today sharing one more major update released from Microsoft related to one of the admin setting

Major Update – “User consent to apps” setting in the Microsoft 365 portal to be retired in April 2024

Details

• What is “User consent to apps” setting –
  • This setting controls whether users can give that consent to apps that use OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 for sign-in and requests to access data
  • If we turn this setting on, those apps will ask users for permission to access our organization’s data, and users can choose whether to allow it
  • If we turn this setting off, then admins must consent to those apps before users may use them
• Currently till this month (Mar 2024), this setting is available through Microsoft 365 admin center

Current setting – from Microsoft 365 admin center – retiring in early next month (Apr 2024)

• Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center – https://admin.microsoft.com/
  • We have detailed article to navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center, kindly please have a look – Microsoft 365 – Navigating to Microsoft 365 admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/11/17/microsoft-365-navigating-to-microsoft-365-admin-center/
• On navigating to Microsoft 365 admin center, we will be on home page of Microsoft 365 admin center as

• From Microsoft 365 admin center home page – we will navigate to “Settings” page – https://admin.microsoft.com/#/Settings/Services
• Kindly please click on “Settings” link from left pane, “Settings” drop-down will be expanded as as

• Click on “Org settings“, we will be navigated to – “Org settings” page – https://admin.microsoft.com/#/Settings/Services as

• Scroll down bit on “Org settings” page and we will see – “User consent to apps” setting as shown in above fig

New location for “User consent to apps” setting – from Microsoft Entra admin center

• Navigate to Microsoft Entra admin center – https://entra.microsoft.com/#view/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/TenantOverview.ReactView?Microsoft_AAD_IAM_legacyAADRedirect=true
  • We have detailed article to navigate to Microsoft Entra admin center , kindly please have a look – Small Tips and Tricks – Microsoft Entra admin center – How to navigate – Microsoft Entra admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/12/19/small-tips-and-tricks-microsoft-entra-admin-center-how-to-navigate-microsoft-entra-admin-center/

• As we navigate to “Microsoft Entra admin center” we will be on “Identity” home page as shown in below figure

• Next, from left page, expand the drop-down “Applications” as shown in above figure
• Click on “Enterprise applications” link as shown in below figure

• As we click on “Enterprise applications” we will be redirected to “Enterprise applications | All applications” page – https://entra.microsoft.com/#view/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/StartboardApplicationsMenuBlade/~/AppAppsPreview?Microsoft_AAD_IAM_legacyAADRedirect=true page as in below figure

• On “Enterprise applications | All applications” page, scroll down bit, and click on link “Consent and permissions” link
• We will navigated to “Consent and permissions | User consent settings” page – https://entra.microsoft.com/#view/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/ConsentPoliciesMenuBlade/~/UserSettings?Microsoft_AAD_IAM_legacyAADRedirect=true as shown in below figure

• On “Consent and permissions | User consent settings” page in left pane we have setting “User consent settings” available

Thanks for reading ! Stay tuned for more articles on Microsoft 365 Updates!

HAPPY LEARNING 🙂 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂